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1. Oxford Dictionary

   pray

   • IPA[preɪ]

   英式

   • v.
     address a prayer to God or another deity；wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome or situation
   • adv.
     used as a preface to polite requests or instructions；used as a way of adding ironic or sarcastic emphasis to a question

   • verb: pray, 3rd person present: prays, gerund or present participle: praying, past tense: prayed, past participle: prayed

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. address a prayer to God or another deity the whole family are praying for Michael 同義詞 say one's prayers, be at prayer, make one's devotions, offer a prayer/prayers, commune with, ... 更多invoke, call on, implore, appeal to, entreat, beseech, beg, ask/request earnestly, plead, crave, petition, solicit, supplicate, importune, rareobsecrate
   • ▪ wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome or situation after several days of rain, we were praying for sun I prayed that James wouldn't notice

   adv.

   副詞

   • 1. formal, archaic used as a preface to polite requests or instructions ladies and gentlemen, pray be seated
   • ▪ formal, archaic used as a way of adding ironic or sarcastic emphasis to a question and what, pray, was the purpose of that?
3. • 更多解釋

   pray

   • IPA[prā]

   美式

   • v.
     address a solemn request or expression of thanks to a deity or other object of worship: the whole family is praying for Michael pray God this is true
   • adv.
     used as a preface to polite requests or instructions: pray continue

   Oxford American Dictionary